VTA Yard Shooting

It’s a solemn day for VTA employees, who marked the loss of 10 colleagues two years ago Friday in a mass shooting at the downtown San Jose rail yard.

Officials held a press conference to provide details on an independent investigation into the VTA yard shooting that happened May 26, 2021.

VTA officials held a press conference Monday to provide an update regarding the VTA yard shooting that took place in May 2021.

The families of nine people killed last year by a co-worker at a VTA rail yard will receive $8 million to settle damage claims filed last November, officials said.

The families of nine people killed last year by a co-worker at a VTA rail yard will receive $8 million to settle damage claims filed last November, officials said.

California now has a new law stemming from the deadly VTA rail yard shooting in San Jose last year in which a man killed nine co-workers. State Sen. Dave Cortese, who authored the legislation, explains how it addresses workplace violence.

Community members came together to comfort the family and remember the life of one of the victims, Taptejdeep Singh in Fremont Sunday.

Community members came together to comfort the family and remember the life of one of the victims, Taptejdeep Singh in Fremont Sunday. Christie Smith reports.

For months after the shooting, the VTA light rail service was shut down.

Two San Jose police officers who rushed to the scene of last year’s deadly mass shooting at a VTA rail yard spoke publicly about the chaos for the first time Thursday as the community marked one year since the massacre.

For months after the shooting, the VTA lightrail service was shut down. It was simply too painful for the employees — to go back to work. Raj Mathai speaks with VTA Board of Directors Glenn Hendricks as he reflects on the shooting a year later.

Two San Jose police officers who rushed to the scene of last year’s deadly mass shooting at a VTA rail yard spoke publicly about the chaos for the first time Thursday as the community marked one year since the massacre.

The family of one of the victims in the VTA yard shooting has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

Pain and anguish were felt Thursday as the Bay Area honored the victims of the VTA yard shooting exactly one year after the massacre. Damian Trujillo reports.

In this raw video, union president John Courtney, speaking at a remembrance ceremony for the victims of a mass shooting at the San Jose VTA rail yard, recalled the moments he fled a room where the shooter had killed multiple co-workers. (May 26, 2022)

One year after a problem employee shot and killed nine coworkers in a rampage at a Valley Transportation Authority rail yard, the family of one of the victims filed a lawsuit Thursday, alleging negligence and wrongful death by the transportation agency, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office and a private security firm by failing to address the gunman’s history of...

In this raw video during a memorial Thursday, Karrey Benbow, the mother of victim Jose Hernandez III, said she will continue to “cheer” on her son, and she would have given anything to “take those bullets for him.” (May 26, 2022)

Victims of a shooting at a Valley Transportation Authority yard will be remembered Thursday to mark a year after the tragedy. Ginger Conejero Saab reports.

In this raw video from a public memorial Thursday marking one year since a mass shooting at the VTA rail yard in San Jose, the mother of victim Jose Hernandez III recalled the last moments she spent with her son. (May 26, 2022)